"Event: Contribution of the Expelled (heimatlos) Jewish German Professors to the Turkish Republic’s University Reform of 1933
Published: 9/17/2010
November 7, 2010 — 2pm – 4pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The afternoon talk concerns an extraordinary response to the rise of Nazi persecution in Central Europe. It begins with a 1933 request for help from Albert Einstein to President Atatürk of the Turkish Republic. In this rare exchange almost 200 “heimatlos” or refugee professors, mostly of Jewish descent, immigrated to Turkey and taught the first generation of modern Turkish citizens, who would later become the professors, specialists, reformers and creators of the new Republic of Turkey. Many of the heimatlos professors eventually stayed permanently in Turkey."
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